By Matthew Balan | September 22, 2009 | 6:51 PM EDT
Wolf Blitzer, CNN Anchor | NewsBusters.orgOn Tuesday’s Situation Room, CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer used a left-wing talking point on the health care debate during a brief about a web ad made by comedian Will Ferrell and other celebrities: “One of the most famous comedians joins some of your favorite actors to promote health care reform. So why are they defending health care...executives making billions of dollars at your expense?” [audio clip available here]

Blitzer devoted three news briefs during the 5 pm Eastern hour of the CNN hour to the ad, all the while omitting how Ferrell and his group made it in conjunction with the leftist organization MoveOn.org. After playing a clip from the web ad during the first brief, which came 10 minutes into the hour, the CNN anchor highlighted how the celebrities were “using comedy to make some serious points about health care. This video [is] getting a lot of attention out there.”
By Dan Gainor | August 12, 2009 | 9:56 AM EDT

<p><img src="http://media.eyeblast.org/newsbusters/static/2009/08/bushitler.jpg" vspace="3" width="219" align="right" border="0" height="190" hspace="3" />For eight years in America, protest was in and all the cool kids did it. We had flamboyantly dressed Code Pinkers demonstrating at conventions and in sessions of Congress, calling Marine recruiters “traitors” and <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,167017,00.html" title="Code Pinkers" target="_blank">protesting wounded soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.</a> Then there were the crazies from <a href="http://www.timeswatch.org/articles/2009/20090323132052.aspx" title="Acorn" target="_blank">Acorn stalking Wall Street executives</a> at their homes. And anti-war lefty Cindy Sheehan got so much news coverage from the major networks and top newspapers that they practically had to create a bureau to handle her antics.</p><p>Through it all, the left whined that President George Bush was a fascist – with “BusHitler” a common term among the foam-at-mouth Birkenstock set. (<a href="http://images.google.com/images?q=bush+hitler&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;rls=org.m... title="Bush and Hitler" target="_blank">Google Bush and Hitler </a>and you’ll get more than 1 million hits including a bunch of Photoshopped images of Bush in a Nazi uniform with a Hitler mustache.) We were supposed to bear with it. Dissent was patriotic we were told. Those hate-spewing anti-war activists really loved our soldiers – especially when they were mocking the war right outside a veteran’s hospital. And the endless stream of Nazi comparisons were just free speech, after all.</p>

By Ken Shepherd | July 31, 2009 | 1:27 PM EDT

<p>Blogger Jane Q. Republican has been reporting over at the <a href="http://ashevilleteaparty.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">blog for the Asheville, North Carolina, TEA Party</a> about a local newspaper reporter who was slated <a href="http://ashevilleteaparty.wordpress.com/2009/07/23/of-interest-to-local-a... target="_blank">to appear last Thursday evening</a> at a local MoveOn.org rally pushing for ObamaCare.</p><p>The reporter, Leslie Boyd of the Gannett-owned Asheville Citizen-Times, ended up cancelling her scheduled appearance at the <a href="http://pol.moveon.org/event/events/attendees/index.html?event_id=94577&a... target="_blank">July 23 rally</a> in front of Rep. Heath Shuler's (D-N.C.) district offices, but as Jane Q. notes, Boyd's plan to attend the rally as a participant violated specific provisions of the Gannett chain's code of conduct for journalists:</p><blockquote>

By Scott Whitlock | May 21, 2009 | 4:41 PM EDT

<div style="float: right"><object width="240" height="194"><param name="movie" value="http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/eyeblast.swf?v=ydqGqGqGeu&amp;c1=0x2536AA&... name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/eyeblast.swf?v=ydqGqGqGeu&amp;c1=0x2536AA&... allowfullscreen="true" width="240" height="194"></embed></object></div>George Soros is a superhero along the lines of Batman and Superman? That's the comparison correspondent John Berman made on Thursday's &quot;Good Morning America.&quot; The ABC journalist was reporting on a closed door meeting of billionaires that included liberals such as Soros, Ted Turner and Oprah Winfrey. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30851839/">charitable giving</a>, leading ABC to feature a graphic with Turner as Superman and Winfrey as Wonder Woman. [<a href="http://media.eyeblast.org/newsbusters/static/2009/05/2009-05-21-ABC-GMA-... target="_blank">audio for download here</a>]<p>&nbsp;</p><p>And while well known arch-liberal Soros, financier of groups such as Moveon.org, wasn't featured in the silly illustration, he was discussed in the piece, with no mention of his hard-left positions. (Billionaire/Mayor Michael Bloomberg was relegated to being portrayed as a lesser hero, Aquaman.) Soros, who once compared the <a href="http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=29359">Bush administration to Nazis</a>, was simply referred to this way: &quot;<b>Together with others in the meeting, including George Soros, Ted Turner, David Rockefeller, they're worth more than $125 billion.&quot; </b></p>

By Jeff Poor | April 9, 2009 | 7:01 PM EDT

Some groups on the left may have it out for anti-tax tea party movement, but according to one of the movement's biggest proponents - it is because they don't understand it from a hierarchical perspective.

Although there are reports that ACORN, The Huffington Post and the Daily Kos wanting to infiltrate the rallies, or crying foul for other reason - Beck, who appeared on Fox News Channel's April 9 "Your World with Neil Cavuto," explained that the left has difficulty understanding it's not a top-down movement, but a bottom-up one.

"It is a fundamental misunderstanding of the left," Beck said. "They don't get it. They think that these tax rallies - because they are so into their ‘.org's and their ACORN movements, where you have to have these coordinators. These are regular people and they are regular people that were hacked off at George W. Bush. They were angry at the spending of the Republicans."

By Jeff Poor | April 3, 2009 | 1:20 PM EDT

Since former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean stepped down as the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, he has ventured into other opportunities.

One of those opportunities was to be a business pundit for the financial news channel CNBC, even though Dean's background prior to politics was in medicine. But just over a week later, in an e-mail dated April 2 to MoveOn.org mailing list subscribers, Dean wrote he was leaving Washington to hit the campaign trail "to help President Obama win health care for all."

By Tim Graham | March 28, 2009 | 3:30 PM EDT

The Washington Post's Friday and Saturday front-page reports by Karen DeYoung on President Obama's escalation of war in Afghanistan are curiously missing one political element: objections from the strident anti-war groups on the left. Whatever happened to the protesters that treated Bush as a reckless warmonger?

Answer: they're either being marginalized, or they were more interested in getting a Democrat in the White House. The real story wasn't unearthed on the front of the Post, but in liberal blogger Greg Sargent's post on Friday at the Post-operated website WhoRunsGov.com:

Don’t look now, but President Obama’s announcement today of an escalation in the American presence in Afghanistan is being met with mostly silence — and even some support — from the most influential liberal groups who opposed the Iraq War....

By Jeff Poor | March 28, 2009 | 12:09 PM EDT

More and more people are starting to take notice of CNBC's dramatic shift to the left and the liberal groups promoting it.

On Fox News Channel's March 27 "The O'Reilly Factor," host Bill O'Reilly and Bernard Goldberg, author of "A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media" took a look at trends pointing to this shift that started after the feud between "Mad Money" host Jim Cramer and "The Daily Show" host Jon Stewart.

O'Reilly cited a column written by NewsBusters Associate Editor Noel Sheppard on March 26 for The Washington Examiner that noted some of the things indicating CNBC's leftward swing.

By Tim Graham | March 8, 2009 | 5:36 PM EDT

On the far left, MoveOn.org has been instrumental in energizing its members to organize, protest, and vote for liberal causes and candidates. They were vehement opponents of George W. Bush and vitriolic protesters of both of Bush's wars. The media might not let you know it, but MoveOn's e-mails to members now sweetly boast of Barack Obama and his new proposals as "ambitious, amazing, and unapologetically progressive." It quotes a New York Times columnist for emphasis:

By Jeff Poor | January 30, 2009 | 1:25 PM EST

Being an outspoken conservative in the media has proven dicey lately, as the Democrat-controlled Congress and White House are working toward seeing an $819 billion stimulus bill signed into law.

According to Ann Coulter, there has been a double standard applied to those outspoken conservatives. Coulter appeared on the Fox News Channel's "America's Newsroom" on Jan. 30 to promote her new book, "Guilty: Liberal ‘Victims' and Their Assault on America" currently second on The New York Times Bestseller's list in only its second week.

"I think it's just another reminder of how the left hates free speech," Coulter said. "It really is strange how they go after speakers like this. I mean, there is no campaign by conservatives to shutdown Keith Olbermann. In fact, I wish more Americans would listen to him - to see the face of the left, the only 57-year-old woman trapped in a man's body to host his own TV show."

By Noel Sheppard | January 1, 2009 | 10:19 PM EST

Ever since the financial services industry totally melted down in September, anti-free market media have pointed an accusatory finger at deregulation as the primary cause of bank, brokerage firm, and insurance company failures.Yet, as press outlets across the fruited plain deal with declining revenues and layoffs, some believe a looser anti-trust environment could be the solution.Even more delicious, one such advocate, Variety's Brian Lowry, used to be a deregulation opponent as evident in his Wednesday column

By Ken Shepherd | October 9, 2008 | 12:28 PM EDT

Gretchen Peters photo via her Web site | NewsBusters.orgWhile other liberal musicians have taken to publicly whining about the McCain campaign using their songs at rallies, the songwriter behind Martina McBride's "Independence Day" -- which conservative radio host Sean Hannity uses as his radio program's theme song -- has decided to take royalties from the song to donate fund abortion provider Planned Parenthood in the Arizona senator's name.

Singer/songwriter Gretchen Peters has donated royalties from Hannity's air play of the McBride hit to liberal activists groups such as MoveOn.org and Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG).

From her Web site: